>Ghislain, this newspaper article is nearly a year old!  We have already
discussed at length.  Despite the title, neither study linked any pesticide
to honey bee decline.

"I thought it was very well designed," said May Berenbaum, an entomologist
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"Dr. Pettis is also convinced that neonicotinoids in low doses make bees
more vulnerable to disease. He and other researchers have recently published
experiments showing that neonicotinoids make honeybees more vulnerable to
infections from parasitic fungi."

Can't help it, Randy, to me what dr. May Berenbaum and dr. Pettis say is
more valuable as what David Fisher from Bayer says.


Kind regards,

Ghislain De Roeck,
Belgium.

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